If You Commit A Crime, Chances Are The Police Will Read Your Blog

from the just-saying... dept

It's true that, when you're blogging, it's easy to believe that no one is actually reading what you write. That's why people end up getting fired, not for blogging, but for saying something they shouldn't on a blog, and assuming no one would ever notice. Taking that to a much further extreme, a kid has now pleaded guilty to a DUI manslaughter charge after he confessed on his blog to pulling the steering wheel of a car his friend was driving -- while denying responsibility to the police.

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From his story in the articles on this I've read, I find it plausible--that he was in an alcoholic blackout with no recollection of what happened, that the driver told him he had grabbed the wheel and he believed it and felt guilty enough to "confess." However, I also find it unlikely that the driver lied to him in the state she was reportedly in at the time, so this in no way states that he wasn't guilty--only that he was telling the truth when he said he couldn't remember what had happened.

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On the other hand... blogs are personal, and you should be able to talk about most everything on your _own_ website if you feel like it. But in this case, it might have been better if he wrote it in an actual diary.

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Try paying attention next time you read the article:Blake Ranking wrote "I did it" on his blurty.com journal three days after the October 2004 crash that caused a friend's death and left another seriously injured

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We are all exhibitionists...just look at what you are all doing: commenting on the personal anguish of someone you don't even know or have the intelligence to even contemplate what he might be going through. The idiotic things that people do - get over yourselves.

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Blogs suck. People who kill their friends suck. Idiots who kill their friends then blog about it suck twice over. I doubt whether he's going through very much, he obviously hasn't enough brain to suffer.